Anybody remember what goofiness was required to display what was on a given floppy disk on a Commodore 64?  I spent many hours playing/copying games back in the early 1980s on one of these machines, and I remember how you used to have to load directories from disk and then use a LIST command to [...]

It’s Kate’s birthday today!  Send her a quick birthday wish at Kate@Hespos.com, if you like. Her latest exploit is practicing her walking.  For weeks now, she’s been able to balance in place.  She can also walk along a wall or with Mommy holding her hands.  Her record unassisted is six steps. It’s also Uncle Rob’s [...]

Kate’s first birthday is tomorrow, and we’ve been planning her party for the upcoming weekend.  Thus, projects are falling into three buckets: Get done in time for the party Get done as soon as humanly possible, but not necessarily in time for the party Get done whenever The lawn fell into category #1.  Thirty yards [...]

Here’s a vid Jimmy took of me flattening the pool in the back yard with a Bobcat It took us most of the afternoon to squish the pool up into a little ball of aluminum, vinyl and dead leaves, then drag it out of the yard and chuck it in the dumpster.  We got rid [...]

There’s a lot of stuff to post here, but a lot of it is at home.  I have some great videos of driving a Bobcat through the old pool this weekend, but they’re on my Flip camera back home.  There are also some before and after shots of the back yard. In the meantime, here’s [...]